Established in 2002 the Gertrude Editions are a series of specially commissioned limited-edition works of art, released annually on the occasion of the Gertrude Studios exhibition.

The Gertrude Editions have been developed to raise funds in support of Gertrude Contemporary and to promote the connection between current studio artists and previous generations of leading Australian artists who have held studios and/or exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary. The Gertrude Editions are held in several major private and institutional collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria and Monash University Museum of Art. Released to the public in November of each year the Gertrude Editions usually contain some aspect of production that reveals the hand of the artist.

2016 GERTRUDE EDITION PAUL YORE

Gertrude Contemporary is delighted to announce that the 2016 Gertrude Edition will be produced by Paul Yore (represented by Neon Parc, Melbourne), who held a studio at Gertrude from 2011–2013. For this year's Edition, Yore has created 52 unique works on fabric—one for each lower and upper case letter in the alphabet—each representing a phobia or anxiety.

This year, Yore's Editions will be sold for $1650 each (inc. GST). They will be released for public sale at Gertrude Glasshouse on Saturday 26 November at the opening of Gertrude Editions (2002–2016), which will bring together all of the previous Gertrude Editions alongside the full set of Yore's 2016 Gertrude Edition.

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to announce that Jess Johnson is the 2015 Gertrude Edition artist.

The Gertrude Editions are a series of new, limited edition works of art, released annually on the occasion of the Gertrude Studios exhibition. The Gertrude Editions have been developed to raise funds in support of Gertrude Contemporary, and to promote the connection between current Studio Artists and previous generations of leading Australian artists who have held studios and/or exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary.

The 2015 Gertrude Edition is a specially commissioned series of unique collages by Jess Johnson. Each work combines a hand-drawn figure or group of figures affixed to an archival pigment printed background, of which there are eight different variants. The background prints form part of Johnson’s inimitable repertoire of landscapes from parallel universes, which are inspired by science fiction narratives and their cover artwork, comic books, and videogames. These landscapes comprise jet-black skies, gridded floors rippling with primitive gradients, tessellating patterns in bricked architecture, mystical domes and colonnades. The figures are a cast of bald-headed men twisting and stretching in impossible contortions, and hybrid human–animal beasts. Johnson’s Gertrude Edition continues her explorations into multiple and co-existent alternative realities through drawing.

The work has been generously donated by Jess Johnson, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Ivan Anthony, Auckland.

The artist would like to thank Nicole Breedon, Victor Kuskoff (Colour Square), and Vasili Kaliman.

2014 EDITION ANNE-MARIE MAY

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to announce that Anne-Marie May is the 2014 Gertrude Edition artist.

The 2014 Gertrude Edition is a specially commissioned edition of thermally formed acrylic sculptures by Anne-Marie May, each one individually hand-shaped by the artist. Continuing her investigations into materiality, May transforms acrylic sheets into dynamic arrangements of interlocking curves through a process of heating and folding. The reflections cast by the sculptures’ transparent surfaces give the impression of drawings in light and space, blurring the line between two- and three-dimensional form.

May has exhibited extensively in Australia and New Zealand, with recent major curated exhibitions including Melbourne Now, NGV, Melbourne, 2013–14; Less is More, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013; and 21st Century Modern, the 2006 Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2006.

The work has been generously donated by Anne-Marie May and Murray White Room, Melbourne.

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to announce that Jon Campbell is the creator of the 2013 Gertrude Edition.

The Gertrude Editions are a series of new limited edition works of art, released annually on the occasion of the Gertrude Studios exhibition. The Gertrude Editions have been developed to raise funds in support of Gertrude Contemporary, and to promote the connection between current studio artists and previous generations of leading Australian artists who have held studios and /or exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary.

The 2013 Gertrude Edition Yeah/Gertrude is a specially commissioned series of screenprinted works mounted onto plywood panels. Campbell has printed the word “YEAH” onto calico, and then cut, mixed and collaged the segments to create a suite of variations on his well known “yeah flag”. In proposing this affirmative text as a replacement for the official Australian flag, Campbell engages in what has been described as a “gentle activism”. With humour and feel-good optimism, he eschews strident nationalism in favour of an inclusive celebration of the small, the overlooked and the everyday.

Jon Campbell has shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work is in major public and private Australian collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Portrait Gallery. Campbell was in residence at Gertrude Contemporary in 1985–87 making him amongst the first artists to hold a Gertrude studio.

The 2012 limited edition artwork is by internationally acclaimed artist Richard Lewer, who has created 78 unique, hand painted works, each of which represent a Tarot card.

Comprising all of the cards in the Tarot deck these works continue Lewer’s investigations into the extremes of human behaviour. In each of the 78 works, Lewer employs his distinctive expressive painting style to engage us in the battle between good and evil, darkness and light, all seen through his viscerally humorous lens.

In creating the series, Richard Lewer referred to a number of historical precedents including the 15th Century Visconti-Sforza deck, one of the earliest surviving examples of tarot imagery. Here, Lewer found common ground between narratives that have been central to his oeuvre and in imagery that for centuries has been used to reveal the self and divine the future.

Lewer is one of Australasia’s most eminent painters whose work has been shown extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand and internationally. His work features in significant national collections such as the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He has had significant solo exhibitions surveying his practice at Monash University Museum of Art and at the Waikato Museum, New Zealand, as well as showing in a number of important group exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

The 2012 Edition has been supported by Yanni Florence.The work has been generously donated by Richard Lewer, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.

2011 GERTRUDE EDITION MICHELLE USSHER

The 2011 Gertrude Edition Mirrorrim Sees is a specially commissioned digital pigment and screen print on Somerset paper in an edition of 50, signed and numbered by Michelle Ussher. Responding to the repetitive process of printmaking, the series combines 4 images in 10 permutations with 5 variations making each print unique. Mirrorrim Sees depicts the narrative of a three-faced woman relentlessly pursuing an object through a universe of parallel reflections. Ussher’s print plays with the infinite possibilities of perception in relation to fiction, holographic principle, alternate realities and contemporary theory. The work has been generously donated by Michelle Ussher, KALIMANRAWLINS, Melbourne and Barbara Flynn, Sydney.

The 2011 Edition has been generously supported by Yanni Florence and Colour Square

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2010 GERTRUDE EDITION JOHN MEADE

The 2010 Gertrude Edition has been specially commissioned and generously donated by John Meade and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne. Comprising a new sculptural work by John Meade in a limited edition of 50, the 2010 Gertrude Edition consists of a hand-cast Hydrostone spine, inset with polyethylene bristles, on a steel base.

Comprising a new work by Benjamin Armstrong in a limited edition of 50, the 2009 Gertrude Edition is a wax and glass sculpture in three parts. As the glass has been hand blown, there are variations between the glass forms that make each Edition individual.

The 2008 Gertrude Edition is a new photographic collage by David Rosetzky, which combines two portraits to question the boundaries between self and other. This work continues Rosetzky's interest in layering and portraiture, and the relationships between interiority and exteriority, gender and identity, realism and fiction.

Work courtesy of David Rosetzky; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne and Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

Generously supported by Exhibit Framing and Prism Imaging

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2007 GERTRUDE EDITION NICK MANGAN

The 2007 Gertrude Edition comprises a new sculptural work by Nick Mangan - a bronze sculpture, cast from an assemblage of banksia pods, beeswax and coins. Inhabiting an uneasy space between growth and decay, totem and tourist kitsch, the work explores the environmental effects of culture on nature and the dubious progress of capitalism.

Comprising a new sculptural work by Robert Owen in a limited edition of 45 unique states, the 2006 Gertrude Edition is a series of open cubes, which have been broken down and reconfigured into five different arrangements. The work plays upon the idea of “flowering” and continues Robert’s poetic and associative investigations into colour, form, and space.

The 2005 Gertrude Edition comprises a new print by David Noonan, which continues his complex layering of histories and genres - from the romantic sublime and the historical gothic to 1970s bohemia and hippie culture.

Courtesy of David Noonan and Uplands Gallery, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Foxy Production, New York

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2004 GERTRUDE EDITION EMILY FLOYD

Emily Floyd's work for the Gertrude Editions continues her investigation into the ways in which artists, curators and audiences learn to internalize and reproduce art discourse. Parodying the hype that can surround young artists, Important Emerging Artist provides a humorous and insightful commentary on the cliches used to market emerging artists.

The 2003 Gertrude Editions comprise two hand-painted works on canvas by Kate Beynon, in limited editions of 30 unique states. These works further develop the theme and imagery of the multiple lives of Li Ji - 4th century warrior girl / 19th century Forbidden City Princess / 21st century inner-city Australian-Chinese girl.